Serious incidents erupted on Saturday during the march organized by opponents of the proposed law on comprehensive security in Paris where cars were notably set on fire along the route.
More than an hour and a half after the start of the demonstration, projectiles were thrown at the police, who responded by using tear gas.
Several vehicles burnt down Avenue #Gambetta.
Thick black smoke arises preventing all visibility.
# MarcheDesLibertés #Paris # 5decembre #manifestation # StopLoiS SécuritéGlobale pic.twitter.com/kTWuystrjm
- Yazid Bouziar (@ybouziar) December 5, 2020
A window of a real estate agency on avenue Gambetta (20th arrondissement) was broken and firecracker jets were also observed along the procession which left at 2 p.m. from the Porte des Lilas in the direction of the place de la Republic, under surveillance after the clashes last Saturday near the Bastille.
REUTERS / Gonzalo Fuentes
🔴CRAV-M intervention underway, which must use tear gas.
Current tensions.
# StopLoiSécuriteGlobale #Paris #LoiSecuriteGlobale # 5decembre pic.twitter.com/eHFhK5Eqtt
- Charles Baudry (@CharlesBaudry) December 5, 2020
"Everyone hates the police", "anti anti anti-capitalists", chanted some participants in the rally in the capital.
Barricades were also set on fire.
REUTERS / Gonzalo Fuentes
In addition, twenty-two people were arrested Saturday in the middle of the afternoon on the occasion of the demonstration in Paris against the comprehensive security law enamelled by numerous acts of vandalism and clashes between hundreds of thugs and the forces of the 'order, tweeted the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin.
Thank you to the police forces mobilized today, sometimes in the face of very violent individuals.
22 arrests have already taken place in connection with the demonstration in Paris.
- Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) December 5, 2020
"Thank you to the police forces mobilized today, sometimes facing very violent individuals", also wrote the Minister.
In all, more than 90 rallies were organized in France to protest in particular against the law on global security, accused by its detractors of undermining "the freedom of the press, the freedom of expression and the freedom to demonstrate. ", And also to establish" mass surveillance tools ".
The distrust against him was reinforced by the filmed beating of music producer Michel Zecler by police officers.
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Last Saturday, the "marches" organized by the "coordination # StopLoiS SécuritéGlobale", a collective of multiple unions and associations, including several organizations of journalists, strongly mobilized in the country: between 133,000 people, according to the Ministry of the Interior, and 500,000 according to the organizers.
The Parisian demonstration was marked by violent clashes between the police and some demonstrators.